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Sky Wave 17th Sep 2006 16:07

Same job I've been doing ever since I left school at 16. (Now 31).

Railway signal engineering. I left full time employment in 2003 and have been doing the same work on a contract basis ever since. It pays more and it allowed me to take time off for training between contracts. I'm only picking up odd bits of work now because I can't commit to any more than two weeks at a time. This means I only usually get a couple of weekends work a month, and that's usually at least 200 miles away from home, and night work!

Still shouldn't be too long before CTC drag me out of the pool and send me on a type rating. :)

Turkish777 17th Sep 2006 16:55

VFE
 
Cheers mate :) , you have to strike why the irons hot with the limo girls.......shocking mate what goes on, It seems what happens on a girls night out stays on the girls night out...

I could write a book when I finished..probably write a whole series by time I get a job with the Airlines...:E

timzsta 17th Sep 2006 17:27

Got my fATPL Sep 04. MCC shortly after.

Did FIC course winter 05/06 and got part time FI job at my local club at the weekends.

In the week I work as a multi drop driver so I can pay my mortgage and bills.

Would love to instruct full time but the money won't pay the bills.

320 hours, multi and IR both current.

Startbahn West 15th Oct 2006 13:16

fATPL in june 2002
then Pre degree in business administration
Rampagent for a year now in FRA.
Have 300 TT
Take everything where i can fly.

Flight350 16th Oct 2006 19:14

I have ATPL FAA and I would like to covert it JAA
 
Hi guy's anyone knows which country is easy and costless to convert my FAA license to JAA I just moved to EU,please give me some info.

Thanks

sam34 2nd Feb 2007 15:29

have you got a plan B ??
 
hello everyone!

I wonder have you got any plan B, while you are looking for a flying job ?

What is the best job during the search ? I mean : flying dispatcher, flight instructor, fligth attendant... did i forget another ?

thanks a lot!

sam34

Craggenmore 2nd Feb 2007 16:09

I became a full time FI and would highly recommend it. It was good to be the 'boss' for a while after the intensity of flight training and before becoming a lowly FO for the next 5-10 years....!!!!

SmilingKnifed 2nd Feb 2007 17:57

Personally I'm really enjoying being a pimp.:E

Cyclone733 2nd Feb 2007 19:08

Back doing my old job for half the pay and living with the spare rentals.:ugh:

On a brighter note, it's doing wonders for my motivation to get an airline job.:}

ILSTOMIN 2nd Feb 2007 19:46

Waiting.
 
Well, I just got myself a job while I wait for my airline job as well.
I'm not sure how long time I will be there, but my new boss is really flexible, so I can leave in short notice.

About working as a flight instructor, I rather not pay 11.000Euro for the FI. rating, I rather buy a typerating.

Anyone know what the avearge lengt of time before getting your first airline job??.

Well, I got to get back to the flightsimulator X.

:ok:

Hawkeye_563 10th Feb 2007 12:46

The dreaded wait
 
Unlike some of my other coursemates, I've not been fortunate to find a job as yet. I have however been earning more than them as an engineer for a global avionics manufacturer. I've been saving for 18 months now and have enough funds for a type rating and line training. I got my fatpl three years ago in march, so I'm now gonna go down the route of buying a type rating.

I hope all you other guys don't have to do the same as me.

Good luck anyways, I'll write back to let you know if it works out or not.

Penworth 10th Feb 2007 14:36

A couple of months after finishing my CPL/IR and MCC I got a job as a Flight Planner in one of the main UK charter airlines. It was an excellent job in terms of improving my knowledge of airline ops, routes and procedures. The money wasn't great, but I felt it an invaluable stepping stone, and indeed a couple of my colleagues (who also possessed fATPL's) were offered interviews for flight deck positions within the company as a result of impressing the Flight Ops management in their day to day work. I suspect I may have eventually got an interview too, had I not headed off to CTC after 8 months. :ok:

Glide Perfectionist 10th Feb 2007 15:04

Working offshore as a freelance engineer for £280 per day tax free to repay all the training.

Bad weather has forced us to refuge in Aberdeen.

Anyone interested it is a great way to earn pennies until that first job.


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